From its beginning in Wright’s Detroit basement, the museum has cultivated increased visibility for all African Americans by ...

The term “transatlantic slave trade” has long been established as the predominant descriptor of the forced movement and ...

A church connected to Lucy and Lois, documented as the final two enslaved people sold in New Haven in 1825, recently held a service to honor their stories and resilience.

There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...

In 1700, the English merchant slave ship Henrietta Marie sank 35 miles west of Key West shortly after offloading 190 captured Africans in Jamaica. Nearly 325 years later, using the ...

In 2011, builders in the Rio de Janeiro docklands uncovered the ruins of the Cais do Valongo, a wharf where, between 1780 and ...

Paying homage to ‘The Igbo Landing’, the mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who took control of the slave ship they ...

The transatlantic slave trade may have ended centuries ago but its legacy is ever present, the UN Secretary-General said on ...

President Trump’s order to require proof of citizenship to vote isn’t that far from Jim Crow-era literacy tests, says Bea Hines ...

National Freedom Day honors the resilience of enslaved Africans and their descendants, while highlighting the ongoing fight ...

Pushed through the "Gate of No Return," thousands of Africans were shipped from the Port of Slaves in Bimbia, a seaside ...

As the world marks the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade on ...